[Q] Accessing gallery from Stock camera app - Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

This is what I noticed about the Arc S stock camera app.
After taking a picture, I would usually go back to see if the picture is well taken. There is a direct shortcut from the camera app itself, but accessing the gallery through that "shortcut" is very slow and laggy.
Wanted to find out if this is a flaw in the arc S phone, even though the processor is supposed to be fast? Is this a common issue among the Arc S users?
I do not use any task killers, it is non-rooted, and I find the lagginess only happens whenever I use the (stock) gallery through the (stock) camera. For the gallery from the homescreen, I use QuickPic. Compare to the stock gallery, it is much faster.
I usually do a reboot after 3-4 days, or whenever I find it lags. But the rebooting doesn't seem to speed up the loading time of the gallery. Any clues on speeding up the loading time? Or if there is another trick on accessing the gallery quickly from the camera?

ataraxy said:
This is what I noticed about the Arc S stock camera app.
After taking a picture, I would usually go back to see if the picture is well taken. There is a direct shortcut from the camera app itself, but accessing the gallery through that "shortcut" is very slow and laggy.
Wanted to find out if this is a flaw in the arc S phone, even though the processor is supposed to be fast? Is this a common issue among the Arc S users?
I do not use any task killers, it is non-rooted, and I find the lagginess only happens whenever I use the (stock) gallery through the (stock) camera. For the gallery from the homescreen, I use QuickPic. Compare to the stock gallery, it is much faster.
I usually do a reboot after 3-4 days, or whenever I find it lags. But the rebooting doesn't seem to speed up the loading time of the gallery. Any clues on speeding up the loading time? Or if there is another trick on accessing the gallery quickly from the camera?
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you can set the camera to open the images in Quickpic. if it doesn't give the option when you click then goto the gallery application is settings and clear it's defaults.
this is what i do.
Quickpic is awesome!
Pvy.

Hey thanks mate!
This method works. Couldn't believe why I didn't think of that! Lol..
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ataraxy said:
Hey thanks mate!
This method works. Couldn't believe why I didn't think of that! Lol..
Sent from my LT18i using XDA App
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Welcome to android i have those moments ALLL THE TIME
Glad it worked for ya
on a side note i dont notice any difference in speed from the camera on my phone to either of the apps
running stock kernel no tweaks but a heavily modified framework + system Apps
i have an arc s aswell.
Pvy.

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I found out that the 3d gallery on the OpenDesire rom is quiet slow. Where is the original gallery?
yuzz101 said:
I found out that the 3d gallery on the OpenDesire rom is quiet slow. Where is the original gallery?
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I agree, I cant stand this coolris or whatever the name is. Its definitely not an original Google app - it looks cool, but the payoff is performance degradation
I also noticed some bugs, i.e. duplicate albums.. anyone else has the same issue?
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its slow as hell.. where can i get another version? the standart one..
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Since I flashed my i9000 with Darky 10.5, my gallery is very slow between pictures... Someone told me to install a deodexed version of the 2.3.3. gallery app
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Hi, it's a well known problem of 2.3.3 , i got a deodex rom but it's slow and lag
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Use quickpic app. I gave up on the stock gallery months ago. Quickpic rocks.
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Try Floating Image app from the market. For me it's one of the best.
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Help me get rid of the 4.2 Camera App

I'm on stock 4.2 JB rooted and unlocked bootloader and all.
I hate the 4.2 camera. It's plain lame. I get it that the photosphere thing is nice, but it takes a lot of patience to get a decent pic. So, meh....not a big fan. The controls are OK..convenient settings instead of going thru 5 steps to adjust the exposure etc is good. But what I miss the most is live zoom in option. Its there in the 4.1.2 in video mode. Allows you to zoom in while taking a video. Where's that in the 4.2 camera? Also, I've noticed that the camera has become laggy. Doesn't focus as well as the 4.1.2 app did. I could really take at least 10 pics within 3-4 seconds..all with decent focu...but this thing does take 8-10 photos but all crappy and out of focus. Anyone else face this issue? Anywhoo....the bottom line is I hate the 4.2 camera. To each his own. I love everything else about 4.2. How can I get just the 4.1.2 camera back? I tried to extract it from my nandroids and TiBu ...and install it.....but it force closes on me. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get the 4.1.2 camera app on 4.2?
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pull the gallery and camera apks from a 4.1.2 rom and push the apks to system/app set permission to rw- r-- r--. (delete the 4.2 camera and gallery before moving the 4.1.2 apks)
zoom is still there in both camera and video format. just pinch out (is there a such a term?) and you can zoom
thephantom said:
zoom is still there in both camera and video format. just pinch out (is there a such a term?) and you can zoom
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You are my favorite person for today. I feel soo dumb for not trying that. Thanks. But I still don't like it for the way it focuses.
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1) No button to start either recording or taking photos. Always I need to switch to either video camera or photo. And the process is so laggy.
Maybe there is a way to have shortcut directly to video camera rather than to photo camera?
2) Do you feel that camera app is laggy? For instance switching to last photo with a gesture is slow. And if you turn/rotate the phone - it is dead for a few seconds.
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You can start the camera app and switch it to recording, it will keep the recording active till you shut down your device or force close the app. It's just a workaround. There's no way to link to recording with the stock camera app. And my phone has no lags so far, I can switch it from camera to recording and back again without a single lag. The gesture to open the last photo is sometimes a little bit tricky that it accepts my gesture but I can't see any lags.
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bat0nas said:
Stock rom
Franco kernel
Powermode is set to max (max freq is 1306mhz)
Thanks for your comments.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Kernel release?
Ever faced the lags on another rom?
r361. But same with other nightlies.
Never tried other ROMs as I am satisfied with stock.
I think I must live with it. Maybe it is ok and I just have big expectations.
I recall that camera on ICS was faster.
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My phone is fluid and I can't reproduce the lags. Other roms could fix it, but if you are happy with stock then there's no reason to flash. 3rd party camera apps have you tried one of them?

Looking for Gallery app (S4/Note)

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Since 4.3, my gallery app is absurdly slow to open, and I'm looking for a replacement. Something similar happened with the camera app, and installing the Note2 camera port fixed the lag problems.
So the only restrictions for the gallery are that it must open as the default picture viewing app from within the camera (that's why I suppose only official Samsung galleries will work - S4/Note), and preferably have an editor.
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